[links] Link salad heads for the hospital and goes offline

The Acts of Whimsy cancer fundraiser and the Lakeside Kickstarter for the documentary about me, the_child, and cancer are still live. Both have made goal, but additional support is always welcome. Please check them out if you have not done so yet. Note that the next unlock goal at $44,000 is the_child‘s video, “How to Write Like My Dad”. We’re almost there!

Suds for Drugs — Tide detergent: Works on tough stains. Can now also be traded for crack. A case study in American ingenuity, legal and otherwise. Wow. Weird shit, Maynard. (Thanks to danjite.)

Bill Clinton to Democrats: Don’t trivialize gun culture — Former President Bill Clinton warned a group of top Democratic donors at a private Saturday meeting not to underestimate the passions that gun control stirs among many Americans. “Do not patronize the passionate supporters of your opponents by looking down your nose at them,” Clinton said. They may be passionate, but gun culture proponents are also wrong. Deadly, morally wrong. (Thanks to danjite.)

The Speech — A Primer — Charlie Pierce on President Obama’s inaugural address. But, for an afternoon, anyway, a Democratic president reclaimed the language of freedom from those for whom it means merely lower taxes and more guns. He reclaimed government as a manifestation of a country’s aspirations, and not as an anchor on its progress. And he refuted, with precision and neatly camouflaged contempt, many of the most destructive ideas that have poisoned out politics for nearly four decades now.Ta-Nehisi Coates with more.